The first ever individual to tweet a message addressing the world with just the use of his thought and no other muscle is an Australian man who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Australian brain computer interface company Synchron made a press release on Thursday describing how one of its patients, Philip O'Keefe, man who is of age 62 with ALS, was the first to tweet with the use of implantable brain-computer interface directly via thought. ALS has left O'Keefe paralysed.
"Hello, world!" O'Keefe tweeted from the official twitter account of Synchron CEO Thomas Oxley. "Short tweet. Monumental progress."
hello, world! Short tweet. Monumental progress.
"My hope is that I'm paving the way for people to tweet through thoughts," he wrote in his next Twitter post.
my hope is that I'm paving the way for people to tweet through thoughts phil
O'Keefe came into possession of the Stentrode brain-computer inter...